Andy Warhol's Soup Cans

There have been different art forms that have come and go over the course of time. Hence I will discuss, two significant movements like Post-impressionism and Pop art. Two important artists from these movements are, Vincent Van Gogh and Andy Warhol. There are many differences and very few similarities between these two movements and artists, although more differences. Van Gogh is one of the most captivating artists of post-impressionism. . Throughout his career Van Gogh has painted many works. One of those magnificent paintings is “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. In the other hand we will discuss one of the popular paintings “ Gold Marilyn” by Andy Warhol. Warhol is also the most famous of the Pop Artists and played a major role in making the art movement popular.

In the late 1950’s, Warhol began to have the interest in painting. He painted his first well-known paintings, which was based on comics, and ads he found in 1961. The next year the big spots lights came on and he had his big introduction on the Campbell’s Soup Can series, which changed him completely. Shortly after, Warhol got the inspiration and started working on a large variety of movie star portraits, including Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and the biggest of all Marilyn Monroe. Using screen-printing process, and knowing that Marilyn was one of the biggest deaths in a while, he decided to take that for granted and come up with this marvilent idea to make him go viral.

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I was looking at a bunch of Warhol’s paintings and I was confused. I was just staring at them and I’m thinking “why don’t you look like a Warhol?’ Then I realize that these paintings are from when he was younger. This was before he defined his aesthetic. I believe this was his discovering phase then he goes into his silk screening phase. Andy Warhol used current icons from the world for his work. One of the famous icons was the Campbell’s soup can. In 1962 Warhol displayed his Campbell's soup piece, one canvas for each 32 types of Campbell's soup. In 1960, Warhol began producing his first canvases, which he based on comic strip subjects. In 1961, he started using the method of silk screening. Silk screening starts with a stencil drawing then transferred with glue onto silk. Warhol's first silkscreen was Campbell’s Soup cans. Campbell’s Soup was an icon in the 1960s that gave you a sense of comfort. In spite of that, Warhol’s Soup Can paintings were to provoke concern about value. At first glance it may seem like a joke but it’s actually a sophisticated and thought-provoking artistic statement. In the 1960s Andy Warhol made a sculpture that was extension of what Warhol had done with the Campbell's Soup Cans, Brillo Boxes. The Brillo Boxes were made out of wood but made to look accurately like the boxes found in the

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Andy Warhol did a lot of paintings, mostly comics of artist or ads. The one that became his favorite one was the Campbell’s soup cans. The idea of him painting this painting came through an ad he saw at a gallery. This painting is different than all the paintings he has done throughout his career because it’s comic-strip painting.

Andy Warhol broke the barriers and rules of art at the time and came through with his own style which he helped grow and today is known as Pop Art. In his painting Ice Box he used the artistic values of line with contour and calligraphic, he used a simple monochromatic pallet and uses texture and overlap to add a background and change the way art use to be made from the beginning he created art out of the products around him and his art in one way or another fed into the consumerist market. Ice Box is one of his earlier pieces but the viewer can easily see how this piece contains product consumerism imagery and is leading into his style of mixing mediums. After the war, people tried to return to daily life and a picture of a refrigerator stuffed full of food was an image of prosperity. All of the food in the refrigerator is meant to look appetizing and in some way resemble everyone’s fridge at home. Ice Box was a piece Warhol produced before he became well known for his imagery of commercial products thus letting the viewer know Warhol did not simply paint consumer products to be sold as consumer products he painted these subjects because he found some inspiration in them. This was a piece meant to apply to everyone.